Vladimir Lenin: How to Become a Leader

by Vladlen Loginov, Lewis White (Translator)

Overview

In his book Lenin: How to Become a Leader, Vladlen Loginov, one of Russia's leading authorities on Vladimir Lenin, discusses the revolutionary leader’s early years, his family, his political awakening and subsequent activities.

He reveals the beginnings of the creator of the world’s first socialist country, as well as the source of the future statesman's incredible willpower, his ability to influence people, his drive to succeed and his leadership qualities. All of these, the book demonstrates, were intrinsic to Lenin's character from a young age.

In his research, Loginov uses new sources and previously unknown documents and memoirs, as well as archives of Russians in exile.

Edited and introduced by Professor Geoffrey Swain.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782670636
Publisher:	Glagoslav Publications B.V.
Publication date:	03/29/2019
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
Pages:	322
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Vladlen Loginov is one of Russia's most prominent historians and screenwriters and is chiefly known for his work on Lenin. Having graduated from the V. P. Potemkin Moscow Municipal Pedagogical Institute in 1950, Loginov served in the army before beginning work as a research associate in the Central Party Archive, where he remained for 30 years. Later, he took a job in the Party's Department of the History of Marxism-Leninism. From the early 1980s, Loginov worked as a professor at the Party's Institute of Social Studies. Today, Vladlen Loginov is the director of the Centre for Historical Research, Professor of National and World History at the Russian Academy of Education, and author of over 400 academic works on the 20th century history of Russia. His book Lenin: How to Become a Leader reveals the factors that formed the personality of the revolutionary leader. Today, Vladlen Loginov is the director of the Centre for Historical Research, Professor of National and World History at the Russian Academy of Education, and author of over 400 academic works on the 20th-century history of Russia.

Table of Contents

introduction 7

What Colour Were Lenin’s Eyes? 19

Part One – Origins



Among the Roots of the Family Tree 25

The Sixtiers 34

Simbirsk 43

School 54

1^st March 1881 64

The Man of the House 72

Graduation 79

Part Two – Brother of a Hanged Man



Kazan 86

Kokushkino 92

A Muddled Paper 98

Samara 103

Famine 112

Self-Determination 117

Ward No. 6 126

Part Three – The League of Struggle



In The Capital 135

Initial Recognition 143

The Marxist Salon 150

Awakening 154

Nikolai Petrovich 158

Leader of the Petersburg SDs 166

In Distant Lands 172

The Birth of a Party 180

Part FOUR – Prison & Exile



Solitary Confinement 185

The Hydra of Revolution 193

By Imperial Decree 202

‘Civilised’ Exile 211

The Wedding 221

Family 231

Work 238

A Split in the Social Democrats 243

A New Era 248

The Anti-Credo 254

Part five – The Turn of the 20^th Century



The Triple Alliance 265

Two Passports 275

A Moral Dousing 285

Personal Relations 296

The Wind of Change 300

Lenin 305



Index of Names 314